UK Parliament

UK Parliament

The Houses of Parliament examine what the Government is doing, makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes and debates the issues of the day. Parliament consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The Parliamentary Estate has 17 buildings including the Palace of Westminster, a Grade 1 Listed Building and part of a World Heritage Site. Performance is monitored on a regular basis for energy and water consumption, waste generated and waste recycled. Positive progress has been made through a range of technologies and improvements.

Our energy use

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UK Parliament shares its sustainability data so that everybody
can help to identify new savings and suggest improvements. The
icons below show the utility data currently available for each year.

If you have ideas on how UK Parliament could
use energy more efficiently, please let us know!

2017

UK Parliament 2017 Electricity half-hourly data is generated
Daily.
It was first created at
30 Jan 2017, 10:42 a.m.,
last updated at
and has a maximum extent of
1 year.

Recent Stories

A-rated energy efficient screens that turn off out-of-hours are raising awareness of when & where lights can be switched off. Lights make up a significant portion of energy use at UK Parliament & people using the buildings want to help reduce this

Today is the start of not one but three Department Energy Challenges! The Department of HR & Change, Department of Finance and the Office of the Chief Executive are all taking on the Challenge simultaneously and this is your opportunity to join in!

Engineering contractors Inviron are finding ways in which energy can be reduced by using responsive systems that go on and off dependant on the actual temperature and monitoring the use of heaters within Parliamentary buildings.

The SDT is championing some great environmental behaviours. Switching off lights, fans and heaters when they are not in use and ensuring that external doors are not left open, significantly reduces energy consumption across Parliament.